All right, Democrats. Are you awake NOW???
Roe v Wade is OVER in Texas. And Texas is the test case. The experiment by the GOP nuts to see how far they can get. And they are getting too far…. Where exactly is next? Because they aren’t going to stop with Texas.
We’ve got to get our shit together before 2022. We’ve got to decide if this democracy lives or dies. It’s that simple.
We’ve got to get past our own petty differences, and confront an enemy that would kill us given the chance - whether via COVID, dangerous pregnancies, school shootings, to name a few.
Can we get our shit together? Or are we fucked? Tell me now, because I’m not fighting MY ass off another term if it’s not going to be worth something. I’m still in disbelief about Al and Hillary. Why do we stand for such ridiculousness??? The GOP is now OPENLY mocking the right to vote.
Regardless of your issue - whether race equality, or gender equality, a woman’s right to choose, voting rights, Medicare for all - whatever - is closest to your heart - I don’t care. All are good issues to be concerned about. But we’ve got to help the whole cause. Vote together!!! Stand TOGETHER. It’s us versus THEM. And it’s not funny any more. It’s deadly serious. They GOP means to do away with us.
Do we fight?
Organize!! Organize!!! Organize!!!
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We HAVE TO elect more Democrats - EVERYWHERE - next year.
And frankly, I’m not optimistic about that, either. I expect a few Democrats might - repeat - MIGHT start waking up after all our rights are GONE and irretrievable. And they’ll say what they always whine: “we didn’t have the votes…” (even when they numerically did).
... and that's where this is happening.
We Democrats in the rest of the country need to be concerned, but we must support the Democrats who are in Texas. It's THEIR fight, and we need to make it OUR fight.
we didn't win. The but her email folks made sure of that. And now I don't even know how we fix this. We can send money but a gerrymander is in force...
In any case, perhaps a better headline would have been: "All right, people. Are you awake NOW???" or "All right, voters. Are you awake NOW???" But even something like that tends to suggest that we Democrats (and Democratic leadership) have just been lazily drifting along wherever the current will take us. Clueless; Unaware; Ignoring dangers, etc.
I think a call-to-action is better than an outright insult. "All right, voters. Let's get to work!" or "All right, voters. Let's re-double our efforts!" --- See what I mean?
The great deal of effort being spent in laying blame, and creating distrust and resentment could be better put to use by inspiring unity and strength. That's all I'm saying.
live in the past. 
The one that will never come because it's the United States.
There's a belief that Democrats could easily stop all the bad things Republicans do but they don't want to because they're beholden to wealthy donors, corporations, lobbyists, billionaires -- bribed, corrupt, and have the same economic policies as Republicans. They're just trying to fool us with their social policies. For the last forty years they've shifted to the Right and ignored the working/middle class/unions because all they care about is money (status quo means money in politics, the root of all government dysfunction -- ignore Republicans).
The belief that Democrats were shocked by the idea of universal health care, higher minimum wage, combating climate change, taxing the wealthy and corporations, economic equality, affordable education -- classic Democratic polices. They had never heard of these things and thought them impossible and radical! (Bernie has said this many, many times, like during a Rachel Maddow interview 7/10/19: "'Health care as a human right? Oh, Bernie, that's not -- that's un-American. Nobody in America believes that!'" -- a surprise to Democrats who've said for decades that health care is a human right -- Hillary's try in 1993 for universal health care, the Democrats who introduced Medicare for All bills for years, the ACA).
The belief that Democrats are the true roadblock to progress, as Michael Moore said. Always assume bad intentions and inaction when it comes to Democrats. They cannot be progressive without being "pulled" or "pushed" by True Progressives ("progressive" means anti-establishment with the establishment being the Democratic Establishment). This is a rule. Republican are innocents suffering from economic insecurity caused by neoliberal Democratic policies. Trump voters are just waiting for a true progressive utopian savior to vote for because they're secretly democratic socialists who will join the rest of the 99% in solidarity against the 1% in the class revolution. That's the ideology.
